Motivational Quotes

Passion

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

- Helvetius, Claude A.

Best Quotes about Passion

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Erasmus, Desiderius

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Byron, Lord

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Seneca

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Jung, Carl

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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Viscott, David

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The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion.

St. James, Lyn

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It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Robbins, Anthony

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I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

Slaney, Mary Decker

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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

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Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Nightingale, Earl

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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Wright, Wilbur

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He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Bette Davis

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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Schaeffer, Francis

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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

Oprah Winfrey

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Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Robbins, Anthony

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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Penn, William

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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Cousins, Norman

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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Pascal, Blaise

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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Cicero

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The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.

Salma Hayek

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What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Stanley Kunitz

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

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I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

Wooden, John

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To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

Barthes, Roland

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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Berger, John

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo